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Last week we ran a twitter chat about compression in the new DB2 10.5 with BLU Acceleration. If you took part, you’ll agree with me that this is a very popular topic! To lead up to a twitterchat, we gather articles and blog entries to build a reading list. We also ask our influencers to write about the topic. With a little help from our friends, we were able to achieve greatness. Here’s a summary Blog: Actionable Compression in DB2 10.5 with BLU Acceleration Chris Eaton Blog:... [More]

Congratulations to Jacques Roy for the completion of his latest book: The Power of Now Real-Time Analytics and IBM InfoSphere Streams This book will launch at the IBM Insight conference in Las Vegas . You can get a free book and have it signed by Jacques if you are an attendee of the conference. Jacques will be signing the books at the IBM Insight Conference Bookstore on Tuesday October 28 from 9:30 – 10:30 am. There are only a limited number of copies at the conference, so if this is a book you... [More]

Kevin Spacey, the awesome actor, star of great movies such as “American Beauty” and “The Usual Suspects” and star and producer of the “House of Cards” series is the keynote at the IBM Insight Conference . Does that sound strange to you? I’ve mentioned Kevin’s involvement to a few people and they wondered what an actor has to do with a conference about data?? Lucky for me, I was at an IBM Conference earlier this year and had the opportunity to see Kevin Spacey... [More]

At the end of August, IBM released DB2 10.5 “Cancun Release”. Normally this would have been a fix pack, but given the extensive enhancements, it was given a name. DB2 10.5 "Cancun Release" is available and provides the following benefits: Allows you to get real-time answers to ALL questions with instant insight into historical and “as it happens” data Changes the economics of high availability Allows you to get fast time-to-value with Oracle SQL capabilities that leverage existing skills and IT... [More]

IBM Redbook: Architecting and Deploying DB2with BLU Acceleration Authors: Martin Schlegel, Jean Cristie Pacanaro, Alexander Zietlow, Marco Bonezzi, Polly Lau IBM Redbooks provide deep technical details about key IBM products and are available for free as downloads from the IBM Redbooks site . You can read the books electronically, in all the ways you can view PDF files. Printed copies of this book will be handed out at the IBM Insight Conference . Get your copy and meet the... [More]